Writers at MMU 2009/10: Sean O'Brien
This event on 12th November 2009 at 18:30 has past.
Contact: J.Draper@mmu.ac.uk
Sean O’Brien is a poet, critic, playwright, anthologist, short story writer, editor and broadcaster. He grew up in Hull and now
lives in Newcastle upon Tyne where he is Professor of Poetry at the University of Newcastle.
He has published six award-winning collections of poetry, including The Indoor Park (1983), The Frighteners (1987), HMS
Glasshouse (1991), Ghost Train (1995), Downriver (2001) and The Drowned Book (2007) which won the Forward Prize for Best
Collection of the Year, the Northern Rock Foundation Writer’s Award and the T.S. Eliot Prize. His selected poems, Cousin Coat,
were published by Picador in 2002.
His first collection of short stories, The Silence Room, came out in 2008 and his first novel, Afterlife, in 2009. He was awarded
the E.M. Forster Award by the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1993, and is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
Sean will be reading from and talking about his work, and answering questions from the audience. A selection of Sean’s
publications will be available to purchase from a special Borders bookstall on the night.
Entry: Free
Time: 6:30pm
MMU Geoffrey Manton Building,
Lecture Theatre 7, All Saints Campus - opposite the Commonwealth Aquatics Centre on Oxford Road, Manchester, M15 6BH, GB
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